Bug#758600: shibboleth-sp2-utils: postinst fails on initial installation

[Luca Bruno]

On Monday 10 November 2014 09:06:34 Russ wrote:

> I'll try to take a look, but I no longer use Shibboleth and handed the
> package maintenance off.  Copying the general mailing list.

Sorry then, I CC'd you explicitly as you did the backport, with additional 
changes over the plain jessie package, and are still listed as an Uploader. 

On Monday 10 November 2014 13:38:35 Sam Hartman wrote:
> I'd like to better understand the severity issue.
> Are you saying that there's no order I can install shibboleth and apache
> in wheezy that will work?
> I.E. even if I manually install the module first?

No, I suspect there clearly are ways to express the dependency and some 
install-order to satisfy it.

I've raised the severity because this package's postinst fails due to a non-
declared dependency. Additionally, this package is not providing the apache 
module and the daemon should not require apache2 to be installed at all.
So IMHO the missing/hypothetical dependency is also incorrect. 

While I see the benefit of autoloading the apache module, I think that this 
package SHOULD NOT gain a hard-dependency on apache2+mod_shib2, but opt 
instead for a conditional a2enmod in postinst.
As I said, I'm exploring a nginx+shibboleth path, which I expect to be 
supported by the split-packaging setup currently in backport.  

Just my 2c, though, as I'm still new to the shibboleth world. 

Cheers, Luca

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